Representing and multiplying monumental and other designs



P. M. NICHOLS.'

REPRESENTING AND MULTIPLYING MONUMENTAL AND OTHER DESIGNS.

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REPRESENTING AND MULTIPLYING MONUMENTAL AND OTHER DESIGNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,310, dated October 23, 1883.

Applica-tion filed August 6, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANcIs M. NIoHoLs, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Representing and Multiplying Monumental and other Designs; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention relates to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of different designs formed by joining the several cards together, as indicated. Fig. 3 represents a single card and design.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

The nature and object of my invention is the art of producing quickly by the interchange of cards or blocks a great variety of designs for monuments, buildings, &c., by the use of a small number of cards orblocks,each having on one or more of its sides a separate design complete in itself, combined by successive additions into sets, so as to form a completed structure. i

In the drawings, a2 b2 c2 d2 represent blocks or stout cards joined on the lines A B, C D, E F, of which the cards c2 have on them the designs a and a, respectively, two different designs forv the base of monuments. The cards b2 have each a die, b and t', of dierent de sign, and the cards c2 have each a vase of different design, c and c. Upon the cards c2 are also shown in dotted 'outline the shafts cl and d, which yare upon the other side of the card, or may be upon another one, and upon the cards cl2 are shown the apex e of the shaft, which may be replaced by the card with the figure e, and which card has on its opposite side the apex e2. The cards a2 b2 cl di must all be cut of a uniform size and placed upon a table, easel, or other support, so that one verticalv edge shall lie against a straight edge, f, so as to bring the different parts of the structure into their-proper position, and so that either die b or b', or any other design whatever, made to the same scale for that place shall t into its proper place with the parts immediately above and below it, and the same with all other parts of a design. For monuments, the various parts shown on a card are usually made out of one stone and polished in whole or in part, and are so shown.

rlhe manner of using my invention is as follows:Y Starting with any given base, as a', a suitable design for a die, as b', is placed upon it, which may then be surmounted by an urn, c, or a shaft, d,and when the shaft d is chosen itmay `be finished either with the apex e of Fig. 3 or with the gure e, or with still another` form of apex, e2, shown on the other side of the card and'figure e. We will suppose, for illustration, that we vhave five different cards, each of lwhich has on its two sides a design for a die, d', also, that we have five cards, c2, and the same number of cards cl2. Th en, by the use of the five cards b2 we can, on the same'base, a', produce ten different designs for that part of the monument, and that with either one ofthe ten cards b2. and tenalso the capacity to produce them in a very short time. Obviouslythe lines A B,.C D, E F should only come where there is a line on the design, as at g y, as it would not be so conyenient, for instance, to cut the die b or b in the middle of its height, where it has no lines, so, also, with the shafts d or d', and the same is true of all the parts.

What I claim isl. The art or process of producing designs for purposes as herein described by executing parts of a structure each upon a separate card placed in exact position so as'to register with adjoining parts above and below it, and whereby with said cards combined, as described, a great variety of designs may be produced, substantially as speciiied.

2. The cards a2 b2 c2 d2, provided on one or both sides withdesigns for like parts of a structure, and so that the said parts may be interchangeable and register so as to form various completed desi gns,substantially as speci- -ed.

Y FRANCIS M. NICHOLS. Witnessesz WM. ZIMMERMAN, FRANK W. HiisLnn.

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